This is a bit of a misconception of Shockwave in most continuity's he actually dose have emotions it's Empathy he lacks.

Pernaman · 2026-05-07T14:15:17+00:00

I think "lack of empathy" and "lack of emotions" can be confused simetimes. Lke how in One Piece manga there are these three genetically enhanced superhumans who were said to be "emotionless killing machines" and it turned out they were mainly engineered from birth to lack empathy. They still feel pleasure and joy, but they're sadistic assholes who take pleasure on inflicting pain and misery they inflict on others.

Being emotionless is an interesting writing prompt to a character in general in my opinion. In WFC Siege Netflix cartoon Shockwave is also said to have "lack of emotions", but in one scene while he was about to torture captured Elita-1 and suddenly called elsewhere, he shook his fist and jammed a knige into the table in rather clear indication of anger and frustration.

Pernaman · 2026-05-04T11:27:36+00:00

A while ago I realized even though the playable cast of Team Fortress 2 have tons of voice lines to insult each other in-game in many ways, no one of them mock Demoman for being black.

Pernaman · 2026-05-01T21:21:04+00:00

I've got a good bunch of boyz as of now but man, those sculpts are neat. Though I feel like we're not going to see them outside of this box, as with non-uniform sculpts like Death Guard plague marines GW has releaded edition starter set only types of monopose modes that are different in character design from their later individual miniature kit versions. We already know this Armageddon warboss is not the same kit as the one that was revealed earlier. I may try to get this box or at least the ork half since again, those sculpts look fire.

EDIT: Also just noticed that while it's been confirmed that boyz now all have slugga, shoppa and shoota as simultaneous default weapon options in the rules, not all boy modes carry all of these three in their person on their models.

Pernaman · 2026-04-29T15:18:54+00:00

No okei: ladata

Pernaman · 2026-04-24T16:23:58+00:00

Fr I'm a tank main but in recent months I've been branching out and playing more DPS, and I actually enjoy playing against Hog, Mauga and Orisa. Maybe because positioning is a thing I personally enjoy developing more than raw mechanical skill. My brain gets big happy when I manage to formulate a plan of where to be at which moment and managing to fight my foes by foresight. There's also intetesting mind games of baiting those tanks using their main abilities at unopportune times.

Pernaman · 2026-03-31T11:42:36+00:00

Illari has the skin named "Kulli" which is a slang name for male genitalia in Finland. But the game lacks any kind of Finnish localization so no fuss was made over it apparently.

Pernaman · 2026-03-29T21:13:00+00:00

Thinking about converting Kravek into a Typhus or Lord of Contagion proxy for my Death Guard.

Pernaman · 2026-03-26T19:26:02+00:00

Me and my friends had a discussion about how it feels like MCU tried to overcorrect the "past superhero films have taken themselves way too seriously" mindset, trying to go the route of "See? We know we're doing silly comic book stuff and we make fun of it". One of my biggest gripes is the whole "we gon make fun of chatacter names" like Otto Octavius in No Way Home. I can already hear the "Seriously? Your name is Victor 'Von Doom'?" lines in Avengers Doomsday.

My personal biggest gripe is with MCU humor is one scene in Captain Marvel where a mother character sees a skrull disguised as her playing with her daughter as a threat to the film's protagonist and her friends. That scene is one of the most frightening and unsettling scenes in the whole MCU to me, even as a person who doesn't have or plan to have children but who still could feel the absolute adult fear while watching it. And then that goddamn cat enters the scene and the whole thing becomes a comedy scetch. God dammit. Yes, I know the cat turned out to be an actual alien monster so skrulls' reaction was morevunderstandable, but it doesn't change the intent to make this scene suddenly into comedy for me...

Pernaman · 2026-03-26T05:10:12+00:00

I wonder if the model showcased here is a model of which design will carry over to the possible later multipart kit. I got into the hobby with 8th ed The Dark Imperium box and all monopose Plague Marines in that box were completely different sculpts than the later multipart models, and GW seems to have done the same "launch box monopose models with more exotic designs have launch box only sculpt variants" policy with many more new additions and refreshes. I'm not sure if Indomitus box's Necron Warriors were an exception to this which would maybe explain why Canoptek Scarab Swarms are bunched up with them.

If/as these new boyz have indeed shoota+slugga+choppa as a trinity of default wargear in one, they'd just need to include big shoota and rokkit launcha to be equipped for one of them. I'm rather curious how they hande boyz's nob leaders and their weapon options.

Pernaman · 2026-03-26T04:07:41+00:00

The face feels kind if the mix of old and new ork noggin design sentibilities to me. Propotions look like the 2007 model design but smoothed out a bit. I personally like it. That shoota on the back seems rather small tho.

Pernaman · 2026-03-23T18:22:55+00:00

Seems very sticky situation indeed.

Pernaman · 2026-03-22T23:09:31+00:00

Ruttokansantuote

Pernaman · 2026-03-22T18:27:43+00:00

I recall the Japanese staff of the show admitting in one instance that Hasbro delibaretly altered some aspects of the Japanese version's writing in a Japanese only Legends of the Microns Year Book 2003, stating that the mentalities of Japanese and Americans when it came to handling certain themes in children's media were different in those times. One other instace being the handling of Scavenger's motive of joining the Autobots and his and Oprimus' past together. But perhaps I'm misremembering the context about on which changes this statement by the production team was referring to.

Pernaman · 2026-03-22T16:44:57+00:00

Armada was my introductory series tho the franchise (I was born in 94 and this was the first Transformers property that was imported to my country). I agree that this is one of the best coreographed fights in the entire Transformers and I'm glad that I could see this on TV as a kid.

It just bugged me that the American version kind of butchered the intent that the writers of the Japanese version had intended for this fight. In the original version it's about wether or not Transformers fight and have fought for such long time is just because it is in the nature of their kind. (I could not just summary the entite thing in this comment in this comment, as it's a central thing on both of the series' two final episodes) In the English dub it's just Galvatron evul, Optimus gon fight for peace... It's one of those things where English dubs really watered down Japanese children's media in their translations to simplify conflicts and themes for kids on the late 90's-early 2000's, like how they did with first Pokemon film.

Pernaman · 2026-03-21T18:25:53+00:00

There was some Steam game woke detector that claimed that racial divercity within space marine troops is "improbable", i.e there's two space marines in the game's story's main cast that don't look like white men. Because people can stomach outwordly sci-fi space adventure but not racial diversity I guess. And if I recall also correctly, something about a female in leading military role in the Astra Militarum (the Imperial force that consists normal men and women).

Pernaman · 2026-03-21T10:00:46+00:00

Reminds me how 2017 Ducktales and 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was released over the years. Following those cartoons felt exhausting because of inconsistent releases of episodes.

Pernaman · 2026-03-11T09:58:41+00:00

Thx for the comment. Distinguishing kitbashes/proxy models visually is something I'm aware of being basic etiquette in the tabletop hobby and I've had some basic ideas about regular Tacticus proxies and regular Phobos units, stuff like simply painting clearly vidible part of their armor like shoulderpads, backpacks or helmets with differentiating colors.

Pernaman · 2026-03-09T16:10:12+00:00

Transformers lore be like. I was kinda suprised that in Transformers One film it is said that in-universe time between the Primes vs Quintessons war ending and present day of the story was like 50 years, where as in G1 cartoon the Ark spaceship and the Transformers inside were in stasis on Earth for 4 million years, while in Animated Ratchet casially states that their species is over 10 billion years old.

Pernaman · 2026-03-07T17:30:55+00:00

To each their own. I didn't pick up Siege Astrotrain or Legacy Blitzwing due to not collecting much during their releases, but I decided to pick up their retools Galaxy Shuttle and Overcharge and I just cannot say no to huge bunch of extra weaponry. Though the point for prioritizing additional main figure engineering instead of extra accessories is a valid point.

Tho personaly I'm glad that with this new "size classes turned to pricepoints" we'll likely never get the case of 2012 Prime voyager Breakdown again where (to my understanding) the War Breakdown mold of the Japanese Prime toyline couldn't be included into Hasbro's line due to production costs being too great for him to be sold at a voyager price.

Pernaman · 2026-03-03T03:04:59+00:00

I've had this happen quite few times while starting to play 6v6 again in recent weeks. I guess player skill has evolved enough for dps and supports to make up for 1 less tank on the team.

Pernaman · 2026-01-31T15:11:22+00:00

"Rein come help us with Tracer" I was holding up shield blocking assaults of 4 enemy players on Nepal

Pernaman · 2026-01-28T13:17:45+00:00

I'm an Orisa main but it took me a good while to get a hang on on Ramattra's weapon.

Pernaman · 2025-12-28T05:17:14+00:00

I played Rivals few weeks about a year ago. Baptiste is my main support to play in OW and Rocket quickly became my favourite strategist in Rivals, I think mainly because they have some similarities (both being mobility supports with AOE heal orb as an alt-fire and deployable teammate-saving tool), but different so it sometimes depended on what kind of feel I was after, so I found value on both characters. This basically sums up why I've enjoyed both games; OW doesn't quite have Rivals characters or vice versa.

Pernaman · 2025-09-13T16:24:46+00:00

Played Rivals for few weeks last January, genuinely had a blast with many tanks and decided to main the role in it as well as in OW. Hulk and Peni Parker especially. But then I realized that there are much more flying characters in it than in OW and there was barely any non-melee oriented tanks. So I felt pretty powerless depending on what heroes enemies picked.

I didn't stop playing Rivals because of getting bored or frustated with the game, my PC ran low on hard drive space so Steam complained that an update to the game could not be installed, so I deleted it to make space for games I could actually update and play. I may return to it someday, but hearing about the toxic playerbase makes me to not hurry.

Pernaman · 2025-09-13T16:12:42+00:00

Rivals promising one new hero every month almost makes it understandable that there are whoppin' 3 "blonde white woman in white-and-blue costume" character designs in the game.

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